Vox Communications has exceeded 20,000 VoIP lines on its award winning Voice over Internet Linux-based sever clusters.

VoX's Chief Information Officer, Mark Richards, stated, "We are pleased that we have surpassed the 20,000 line milestone, as we continue to demonstrate that our technology not only works but scales. Scalability is extremely important as VoX engages the mobile VoIP arena where we could potentially increase this number significantly and quickly. In the world of social network marketing, customer acquisition can be very rapid and overwhelm a company not prepared in their back office. We feel that our technology has evolved to the point where large-scale customer acquisition can be handled by our highly automated systems as we begin to find distribution channels that are moving to an Internet-based marketing strategy. Mobile VoIP is a very complex business and our technical team has reduced the complexity so that our customers benefit greatly from being protected from the details of the underlying technology, which is how it should be."

Freebinar.com announces the release of its latest feature, VoIP audio broadcasting. This new feature allows presenters to use their computer microphone or headset to deliver the audio portion of their webinars, eliminating the need for phone conferencing. Webinar attendees simply log on to the webinar through their web browsers and can hear the presenter through their computer speakers. In addition to the new VoIP audio broadcasting capabilities that have been introduced, Freebinar also offers a free conference call number to all users of the service to facilitate highly interactive, smaller online meetings.

VoxOx announces the immediate availability of virtual phone numbers. This new offering enables consumers to create multiple customized telephone numbers that route to their VoxOx account, and can also be routed to other phones (work, home, mobile, etc.). Consumers can select their virtual phone numbers from more than 100 area codes in the U.S. and Canada. They also have the ability to do a “vanity” search for memorable digits and word spellings.

VoxOx virtual numbers are being offered in addition to the free phone numbers that every VoxOx user receives upon sign-up. Each virtual number costs $1.95 per month or $19.95 per year – one third of the cost of Skype’s online numbers. Differentiators of VoxOx virtual numbers include support for inbound SMS and fax.

360networks has deployed Dedicated Internet Access service for Velocity Networks. In addition to DIA, Velocity also uses 360networks' Wholesale VoIP services to include IP Origination, Toll Free Origination and IP Termination.

By integrating DIA with 360networks' Wholesale VoIP services, Velocity's customers can prioritize VoIP packets across the 360 IP backbone and route directly to the Velocity VoIP platform for call routing and processing. The direct routing will bypass the public internet and ensure low latency and the least possible hops.

D2 Technologies announces that its mCUE product line now fully supports Skype’s SkypeKit SDK. mCUE gives OEMs and ODMs a quick and economical way to speed Android OS-based devices to market that offer a communications client with native Skype interoperability and powerful integrated communication capabilities. Combining the SkypeKit SDK with mCUE’s advanced user interface and high quality media engine offers customers the added benefit of mCUE’s advanced multi-mode, multi-session, multi-protocol engine for full interoperability with multiple carrier and enterprise communications systems and other social networking services.

VoIP Supply announces the release of their VoIP Phone Buyers Guide. The VoIP Phone Buyers Guide is the second guide to be released from their “Learn More” series of educational guides to VoIP equipment.

“As VoIP technology hits the mainstream prosumer there is a great need for educational resources that help demystify and explain the various components that comprise a complete VoIP solution so that solid purchase decisions can be made,” stated Garrett Smith, Director of Marketing and Business Development at VoIP Supply, LLC. “The VoIP Phone Buyers Guide is that type of resource.”

PortaOne announces a new partnership with TelcoBridges following successful interoperability testing between Tmedia products and PortaOne's PortaSwitch VoIP call control and billing management software platform. The announcement, made at International Telecommunications Week 2010, assures telecom service providers not only of seamless operation between the products, but also a combination of reliability, scalability and system flexibility suitable for today's most demanding network and market requirements.

Grandstream Networks announces interoperability with Metaswitch Networks that will bring Grandstream’s affordable SIP/VoIP enterprise voice CPE solutions to Metaswitch service provider customers. Carriers can now offer Grandstream’s affordable GXP series of SIP telephones to enterprise and call center customers worldwide in need of advanced IP functionality like XML capabilities. For enterprise and residential customers seeking a more advanced, integrated multimedia experience and instant access to real-time web and social multimedia applications, Grandstream’s award-winning GXV3140 IP multimedia phone is available.

XConnect and carrier ENUM-registry services announce availability of the first IP eXchange platform to offer seamless integration with PathFinder, the GSMA’s Number Translation Service, enabling interoperability and convergence between fixed and mobile networks.

A full suite of IPX services is available within XConnect’s national federation environments in North America, Korea, Europe and South Africa, as well as accessible from XConnect’s points of presence globally.

BroadSoft announces that Communications-as-a-Service providers, SimpleSignal and Telesphere have commenced pilot testing of IP-powered communication application stores based on BroadSoft's Marketplace. These new stores will offer third-party applications and services, allowing end-users to directly purchase and use communications applications online. The SimpleSignal and Telesphere online stores are first among fixed-line VoIP service providers and add momentum to BroadSoft's Xtended program, which was established to benefit service providers and their subscribers with a choice of compelling and innovative third-party applications.

TalkFree has launched PickRoute, an A-to-Z VoIP termination service for small and medium-sized businesses and resellers already utilizing a VoIP switch or IP PBX. By employing SIP Trunking, customers connect to the service and access TalkFree’s advanced intelligent network and routing technologies and over 60 leading telecom carriers managed by the company’s patent-pending Global Intelligent Routing software.

Voxbone announces that incumbent telecommunications carriers have begun routing calls to its geographically-independent iNum numbers – previously used solely by VoIP providers.

iNum numbers, which Voxbone introduced more than a year ago, use a global “country code” (883) and can ring phones anywhere in the world. They offer customers of participating service providers a globally portable number for life.

Carrier adoption is key to widespread iNum usage and, Voxbone said, points to the future primacy of IP communications.

XConnect announces a strong representation of the U.S. VoIP service providers offering HD voice service are participating in a trial of the world’s first IP-peering federation created for exchanging HD voice traffic.

Alteva, Broadvox, Ooma, Phone.com, SimpleSignal, Stage 2 Networks, Telesphere, TurboBridge and ZipDX are taking part in XConnect’s trial, launched April 1.

The trial is designed for the exchange of high-definition calls between networks using XConnect’s secure and scalable carrier ENUM-based interconnection services.

CounterPath announces the launch of NomadicPBX a turnkey platform for enabling converged mobile and broadband SIP voice, messaging and presence services. Available immediately, NomadicPBX gives wireless carriers and mobile virtual network operators a cost-effective way to launch enterprise fixed-mobile convergence services.

The NomadicPBX application is a presence-based, fixed and mobile voice, and instant messaging/short message service technology mashup with a select set of enterprise-ready features. Based on CounterPath’s Network Convergence Gateway platform and leveraging the company’s patented technology, NomadicPBX enables wireless operators and other service providers to extend their feature sets into small and medium enterprises, which currently account for one-third of all hosted VoIP deployments, according to a recent Infonetics Research survey.

Ooma announces the availability of Ooma PureVoice technology, designed to ensure excellent voice quality under the most demanding broadband conditions.

Ooma PureVoice technology is comprised of four key components:

Advanced voice compression

Ooma uses an advanced voice compression algorithm that reduces bandwidth consumption by 60% over standard VoIP technology and is more capable of withstanding packet loss without degradation. This leaves you with more bandwidth for all other online activities and increases the likelihood that your voice traffic will be delivered properly by your ISP.